That cat was accused of counter-revolutionary activities by the Committee of Public Safety.

FYI KOMO in #seattle is a Sinclair ABC station. Brian Stelter says This just in from Sinclair: "Beginning Tuesday night Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the […]

Having just been in New York, the Rosh Hashanah display at my local #seattle grocery featuring *Matzah* made me feel out of place. Do they get points for trying? Shanah Tovah all. #roshhashanah

Need your fix of new economics papers in your field? On Mastodon? Find the accounts here: https://nep.repec.org/ #dailyRePEc #economics

Ashland #or has free #ev chargers in city owned parking lot - just plug in. 4hr limit. 9 x 9 kw chargers. Power ~8¢/kwh here so probably < $10/hr cost to city. People seem to love it. #seattle has some neighborhood chargers, but still have to pay via ChargePoint app.

it's not a distraction - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yyFjNfTlZTM https://m.youtube.com/shorts/yyFjNfTlZTM

Read the whole thing: Mass. mom detained by ICE for 10 days over decades-old minor marijuana charge - masslive.com https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/08/mass-mom-detained-by-ice-for-10-days-over-decades-old-minor-marijuana-charge.html

Nice to see my governor pushing back on Bondi: https://governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-08/FinalResponseLetter.pdf

Trump: “Harvard has to understand, the last thing I want to do is hurt them,” he added. “They’re hurting themselves. They’re fighting.” Trump’s attitude on Universities, Ukraine and women. It’s only a problem if you resist […]

Half of US history in a single photo. Man in "We the people Defend Liberty" t-shirt depriving someone of liberty. From New Yorker photographer Mark Peterson: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/ices-spectacle-of-intimidation

I have no idea how Safari on iOS decides what shortcuts to display when tapping the address bar, but I swear the giant LUST/SSM on my screen was unintentional.

Oh, this is ridiculous. SDOT only shared information about the Ballard Bridge being down due to mechanical malfunctions.... on Twitter. Even something like Bsky would be annoying, seeing critical government announcements locked to a VC-backed social media enclave, but Twitter is just... wtf […]

For #seattle folks. Last night thanks to the 2024 Experimental Education Unit auction we hosted a dinner by Paju. Highly recommend that place which used to be in our neighborhood. Dinner availability apparently much better now that they moved to SLU. And Bill, the chef/owner is lovely.

If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an answer! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/

Trump’s spending bill includes $85 million to move a Space Shuttle. | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/nasa/698858/trump-big-beautiful-bill-space-shuttle-discovery-move

“corporate diversity programs will continue to flourish even in the absence of new legislation” - Dobbin 2009 Inventing EO. Predictions are hard. Especially about the future.

@heidilifeldman cuttingly notes the futility of trying to analyze the legal arguments behind Supreme Court rulings. JFK’s vaccine committee is a great example of this general idea at work — you can’t fight them on science cause they aren’t doing science at all. Science may be flawed and socially […]

Don't forget that the NYT first described this as being "escorted out". NYT defaults to pro-admin frame as usual.

Arizona Daily Star - A deputy US marshal was mistakenly detained by immigration agents inside the federal building that houses Tucson's immigration court. https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_2573f016-3596-4f32-93f7-7e99b6459675.html

Wait, the CEO of Palantir studied under Habermas? (Apparently they had a falling out). #sociology

Sometimes you read something that takes your breath away: “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily […] [Original post on sciences.social]

sciences.social users: Costs keep rising & there is very little support through our Kofi at https://ko-fi.com/socialsciences (Hint, hint). To help keep costs down, I'm going to institute a retention period of 90 DAYS for all _external_ posts received on our server instead of saving a local copy […]

FBI being told not to document move to immigration from high priority work. https://bsky.app/profile/bradheath.bsky.social/post/3lqdq5gianc2h

Riding the bus in #seattle (no I didn’t put it there but it made me smile)

50 Venezuelans imprisoned at CECOT came to US legally. https://www.cato.org/blog/50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salvador-came-us-legally-never-violated-immigration-law

Saw Eddie Izzard’s one person hamlet last night. Highly recommend “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will” made me think of structure/agency debates. Clearly too much #sociology on my mind https://www.eddieizzardhamlet.com

oh the irony

"I've long maintained that the threat from AI to workers isn't that AI can do your job - it's that an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that *can't* do your job." — Cory Doctorow at https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114466666309059661

Today I learned that Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, has a PhD in social policy from Brandeis, where his doctoral advisor was the socialist pacifist David Gil. (I was looking up Gil who someone mentioned in an interview.)

Horrific https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/ Saw via Ian Carillo on bsky https://bsky.app/profile/iansociologo.bsky.social/post/3lnxhrqleac2a

It also declares—not coincidentally as #Trump is facing dozens of #TROs & injunctions: "No #court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a #contempt citation for failure to comply with an #injunction or #TemporaryRestrainingOrder” […] [Original post on masto.ai]

#giftarticle NYT piece asks 35 #legal scholars about the most #lawless things #trump has done in his first 100 days. Spoiler, there are a lot. #law #constitutionalcrisis #potus #felon47 […]

I see Clemens Vasters is proposing a new schema language for JSON: https://json-structure.org I think there is room in the ecosystem for such a thing, a lot of people including me broadly dislike JSON Schema in its current shape. No opinion about the quality of this new submission.

At jury duty the video explaining our solemn duty as a potential juror was hosted on YouTube and was interrupted by an ad for paleo meat sticks. There’s a joke in there somewhere, but I suspect it’s mostly on us.

Does anyone know if there is a #markdown editor with a good outline mode? Lots of em have a way to navigate an outline or collapse headings, but haven't seen anything with native markdown support that makes the thing you are editing *look* like an indented outline while editing. Even something […]

The 8 year old iPad Pro I've been using no longer works with its pencil and I'm gonna upgrade. Considering Remarkable instead. For those who have tried Remarkable -did you stick with it? Still like it?

So are these AI ads deliberately ridiculous or do they just not care what photo the AI spews?

Excellent observations about what the Signal fiasco tells us about how Trump junta is operating more generally. From Josh Marshall, https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signalgate-is-bad-but-opsec-isnt-even-the-worst-part-of-it

via tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/oldshowbiz/778961667492020224/the-old-nose-joke?source=share A profound comment on art imitating life. Earnie's sculpture of Burt can finally embody the truth of Bert, but only by destroying him.

The "Lady Plainsmen" huh? Sounds like Texas HS basketball is endorsing radical gender ideology Aaliyah Chavez does seem pretty awesome though https://www.espn.com/college-sports/recruiting/story/_/id/44347083/top-prospect-girls-basketball-2025-aaliyah-chavez-ncaa-decision

Working on my syllabus for undergrad #sociology of morality this summer. If you can share successful syllabi or ideas I'd appreciate it. 9 week course, 4 hrs/week class time.

Gift link. Must read is all I’ll say. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=XHiuW3RmCwuNk4NdXCmK1oTZ5LKUorY4Rnu6OzWvnV4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share For bsky users saw via […]

Only a 3.4 earthquake 16 miles away, but the fact that I felt it makes me worry about the foundation of my house (or maybe the squishy land it sits on). https://masto.ai/@lastquake/114181970720123541

What NASA’s two astronauts who have been stuck in space since before Trump’s inauguration see upon their return to Earth.

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

Daily skin moisturizer proven to work 48 hours. OK, which is it people.

Only stayed for an hoir at the #seattle #standupforscience rally but was fun to see Governor Bob Ferguson there & to see some of the nerdy signs.